and in london. where's it from me coming up next our c.e.o. interview program where we try to find the answer to the syrian standoff with the head of the russian parliament's foreign affairs committee tuesday. joining me now is alexei pushkov he's the head of the international committee in the russell doom i thank you for being with us i'd like to begin with diplomacy in the world today and it's never been easy but it seems even more powerless with situations like we're seeing with full blown conflict in syria do you think a political solution that through words we can have peace there well i think the situation. has deteriorated extremely since last spring. and today it looks more like a bloody deadlock. than something that would give you fair prospects for.

peaceful solution yet i think that. the international community can generate nothing but. the geneva communique. that was adopted today end of june and which says that. the international community has to bring both sides at the negotiation table is no secret here the reason medical answers the answer is first for both sides i mean russia and china one and the so-called friends of syria . is to understand that it is not one of the signs in the conflict that it can be solved i think russia and china are closer to this understanding then the united states or the european along. because unfortunately this until now has been. numbered it has to go

it's not a policy and we should try to understand that it is not by arming and financing the armed opposition to the present government in syria the dissolution of. the armed opposition has not strengths. to dislodge president assad president seems not to have enough strings to crush the opposition and so really you know that look so on both sides we should find people who could start to negotiate what about turkey do you think we'll see conflict with full blown conflict between syria and turkey or anywhere else in the region turkey can be dragged. into this conflict but i have a feeling that the leadership of turkey understands very well that if they go too far in syria it may become dangerous for turkey so you know that important kurdish minorities living in syria and you know that in turkey the kurds

or this part of the kurds fighting for. involvement in the war in syria. may have a lot of trips put turkey and turkey has refrained until now from crossing the border and ground troops to syria because it's easy to go in it's difficult to get out and the story of all the conflicts there against iraq whatever shows that you go in and the decisions taken a couple of days and then takes years and years and years to get up so i don't think that the turkish government is really willing to open a war with the syrian government. but. those two states basically on the brink of war and this is very dangerous because here we have also on the other side of the local iran and we have all

this talk about a possible military strike against iran nuclear capabilities so it's really kind of not. it should be untied part by part so. i think it's high time to start to untie the syrian not there's a deadlock a lot of blood thousands of people being killed infrastructure destroyed by terror by just fighting in general it's not a country like iraq or libya that has oil to rebuild itself if we ever see an end to this conflict who could possibly benefit from all this fighting obviously from both sides there it's a lose lose situation syria has some while but you're quite right it's not the amount which. will be sufficient to rebuild the whole country syria the way whatever. can be said about the rule of assad family who has a pretty decent economical in social a country in the arab world i visited damascus last february and the city

produce a very good impression on me it was going to be rippin city it was very open city open air city. very secular in style it is an islamic country but somehow the style of living was very modern and you could see women sitting. with husbands and a nice restaurant and. economically it was clear that the mosques was one of the points of attraction in this region so it's really a pity that a country that has been enjoying quite an important economic growth is being put into shambles and who will profit from the destruction of syria i think only those who are after establishing a radical islamist regime in syria there are some countries in the arab world in the muslim world. financing really call islamist forces who are quite willing

in the case of syria to support the sunni radicals against the shia who are now in power at the expense of the christians of the kurds of the druze and other men. in syria so in some capitals of this area this conflict is considered through completely different says it's about the installation of a sunni rule in a country which had been ruled by minority for forty years but it was exactly the fact that this country was ruled by a shia minority but it allowed to have this. multi-ethnic multi confessional combination in syria. which worked i mean for forty years there were no. conflicts in syria there were no it. so my feeling is that what is being done to the syria is an attempt to crush this multi-ethnic. confessional peace and to stop

one group of people and one religion will be much above the others even one brand of a religion that would be a radical islam and a sunni radical majority. that would kind of lead the country but i think. we see where it leads look at saudi arabia. let's put it this way you don't have democracy and they get along great with the united states and i want everyone to know where does the u.s. stand in terms of regime change their very open secret that they want assad to go and then they're pushing on russia and criticizing of russia that it's them and china who are blocking any kind of progress on a solution the united states to my mind a completely mixed up actually and the reason to a large part of why all this mess has. triumphed in syria the united

states tried to prove that with the help of qatar where there is no constitution and the opposition is being crushed or of saudi arabia where there is no constitution. even the remote notion of what democracy is they will establish freedom and democracy in syria and i wonder who can believe this i wonder with the american diplomats do they put one and one together and the u.s. position is completely flawed i think. the us are themselves lost in this situation they don't know what will happen they don't know what are the forces who will come to power when hillary clinton was asked on congress hearings who are the people the united states support politically in syria she said . and also she was asked why. are you one of the leaders of the. main enemy in

a paradoxical twist of history mrs clinton and find themselves on one side of the barricades against president asad how america reached this unbelievable position i do not know i think it's very contradictory very weak i think the u.s. have no policy towards syria and the only policy of the is to blame russia they are very likely to have russia because at least they have somebody to blame if russia was not around the void of american foreign policy on syria would have been completely clear to everybody let's talk for a moment about the force. that will come to power in the u.s. they're having elections very shortly. what does that mean for russia does it matter who is going to be in office for the next four years in terms of foreign policy do you expect any changes either way the russian president. said. already a couple of times that we will work with the president who's chosen by the american people so i don't think that moscow would like to take sides unlike by the way

america france always like to take sides and who show that they would like to have this person as a president or the president and the. who's popular in the country they would like to become president of russia we have a different approach but mr romney complicated everything basically he set the tone of this election to the extent that russia is concerned and he made us make us choice made sure it's almost immediately when he said that he considers russia to be american jew political for number one after this the answer is evident is the president would like to win. mr romney said it all so we definitely would not like to have a president. who has some kind of. negative thing about russia.

if mr romney is elected it will be farcical see a trickle cold war mostly rhetorical but still it will poison the relationship to a large extent i think there is said to mr obama it was very much criticized on both sides in the united states and in russia i think it has to do something and the most important result of the reset is that the narrative has changed because basically the relationship between moscow and washington between the kremlin and the white house. has turned into ashes in the last months of george bush second presence the reset brought a new. here in the russian american dialogue relationship between obama and mr a bit of an even between obama and mr putin decent relationship they have of course there are complications and the differences have not gone away a number of issues but still it's in an atmosphere in which we can consider this

pol pot as was disagreements with mr romney we will be forced to consider ourselves as then and so it's. definitely preferable to have a partner with a lot of disagreements than an enemy which will be clear cut enemy and so i think that the russian choice in those america actions is absolutely clear. thank you very much. tucked in between the russian mainland japan and the circling island is the island of minute on named after french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take

a look at what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the boarders own and was completely restricted to visit is now this picture is place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top attraction. really has been exploring the deaths on the world seas for several decades but it's here at more your own island where here's finally found what he'd been looking for . the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the underwater world here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across the planet including the island of bali but mine are on top of my list while some go to the sakhalin region to enjoy the sights others convert the island's nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the

tonight shock hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious salamon caviar almost unnecessary attribute of anything in russia the owner of the enterprise. says a good fishing season can bring in more than a hundred million dollars net profit. and to a large extent this is old to do what cycling offers environmentally the tonight show operates in only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sights and delicious seafood succulent can offer a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers from europe the question is whether this distant land would ever be able to become a major tourist destination.

the top stories tonight of nuclear power plants put on alert in the u.s. because of a deadly super storm sandy the weather is also for the election campaigning on hold with fears it could cost close. gatherings intensifying crackdowns an anti-government protesters clashed with police rising is almost daily violence with police using tear gas and rubber bullets. and britain set for a clash over cash in funding the e.u. with conservative backbenchers leading a rebellion to cut the money flow that's the struggling members italy and spain insist they don't need handouts from the euro zone. sports up next.

and i thank you for joining me for the latest sports news this tuesday and these are the headlines. for the cup twice what is the need to reach the quarter finals of the russian come to know when at least struggles mordovia two big guys though are still underway. while duffy down here david blanchard resigns as coach of the russian national basketball team after seven years at the helm due to personal reasons. and feeling the heat ray allen prepares to face his poor my problems n.b.a. champions the miami heat host the boston celtics in their season opener this tuesday . but first a phone call and scored twice in the second half of the two so i want to strive to know what mordovia to go through to the quarter finals of the russian cup record signing hulk set up both goals inside against the man finally break the deadlock after sixty five minutes and left back to the medical chris she toll ramped up the scoreline in stoppage time and meanwhile a big job is currently underway in crowds not all where the city's two top flight

teams are going head to head and home sides of our lead one nil through marcos it's early start anchor at rostock it's nil nil there and earlier in the only normal premier league match up getting started it's got another one nil thanks to alexei design of the first half strike. we want to bring on this year's evening former russians a new captain on the shop and is set to make only his second start of the season for arsenal the gunners go to fellow premier league side reading in the last sixteen of the league cup the thirty one year old forward has faced criticism over his commitment and work rate in recent months but arsenal manager arsene wenger has defended his player. because not just been christian. for him and i don't. if you drop the case i would speak about it but andre every day comes into. practice where focused want to work. and you insist on that because. it's. was christian don't do it it was completely unjustified. and is one of

five this tuesday night in england all involving top flight sides including a ne obvious sunderland and a tricky trip the struggling aston villa to paolo di canio swindon. meanwhile barcelona strike a little messy house receive the golden boot out of finishing the top scorer out of all the leaves in europe this is the twenty five year old second such award in three years after the argentina star set a new legal record of fifty goals for more than realm of trade rival christiane there are now those who picked up the prize last year both have been named on the twenty three man list in contention for feet as ballon d'or for the best player of the year a title messi has been holding for three years but the humble maestro believes he couldn't have won his latest although alone. because you get some great new team awards every time i will give you julie i see the same thing because it's logical and for these are all no more than anything else it's an award for scoring goals and without my teammates i would have scored in the very early. basketball in their

own coach david that has resigned after seven years in charge of the russian national team the fifty three year old american israeli says this is the right time to go and has given up his post for personal reasons well bus took up the reins in two thousand and five and two years later guided russia to their first and so far only european title last season to lead them to make it a lankan coterie eurobasket bronze and first recently to their maiden bronze medal this summer's london olympics. meantime reality set to face former club boston for the first time as n.b.a. champions miami start their title defense at home to the celtics this tuesday the matches are a craze of last season's eastern conference finals which the heat eventually won before clinching their second n.b.a. crown they've since signed allen and rush hour lewis to help their big three of the bron james chris bosh dwyane wade and james believe the pressure is. allen off to his own a much criticized move from longtime club clean limbed. there two years ago and not

likely one of them i want to win the game right now is this team we're going to try to help and these guys are friends i think you guys think that i have some type of animosity or bad blood against them i don't. have said it times i would get like we've shared you know my painted up i'm pretty sure a lot of people probably the most special thing that you could do was force is going over to the. white house where the history rockets new signing james harden will make an immediate impact as the point guard moves from last season's runners up to the oklahoma city thunder and this in itself hoping for a long to do with sixty million dollars that they were all kids the twenty three year old is set to join fellow new arrivals jeremy lin and shake the whole thing could make his debut at the detroit pistons on wednesday and he's ready to finally become a regular starting. college i was a leader and i was there but the thunder but you know i had a different role how to change morrow now i'm going back to my starter ways and you

know you know being a leader on the court an effort first first option which i think i'm i'm deathly ready for you know we're going to go together you know it's going to be building process but we're going to grow right get better so the matters. now moving on to i saw the way that he saw the pope scored twice and claimed an assist as i boss one three one on high winds to inflict an eight straight defeat on our plans after going us first period is that the ball came to the fore to what is often the break he scored in front of his hundred families. swoop in then he's going to make it to me. on a form and i shall play in the college here that didn't make one backward glance. but that was not enough as in the third period is that people were still at his sides to go question on a lot whether one is up two seasons ago but have now only one once in twelve games bought boss offered in the eastern conference one points behind but i'd go and get a look but miss. goes. on in the meantime the giants have returned home to san francisco after winning baseball's world series for

a second time in three years manager bruce bochy flushed the train as he stepped off the plane when the giants won game four four three in detroit on sunday to complete a four game sweep of the tigers to play the world series and hundreds of thousands of fans are expected to turn out for wednesday's team parade on hollow eve. on the boxing now in the first ever professional fight in afghanistan takes place this tuesday night with organizers calling it the fight for pace german born afghan and i she may well take on tons of is played bella in a twelve round bout in the capital kabul but at stake is the vacant intercontinental middleweight belts but while both fighters expect a bruising contest they also believe the fight will make a statement of peace and freedom in a country which has suffered from war and terrorism for almost forty years. i do think it's going to take months to come live with this war torn down and i believe in store thomas more time in my beliefs whatever the palmer the magic was already

told her journalism. bring arsenal. and finally winter is only just beginning here in russia but an unusual snowboarding competition was held this weekend at an all season alpine skiing venue in the moscow region considerable top of has more. russia is a country covered with snow for almost half the year but you can also find many snowboard infuses here during the day all the hard and these enduring o'brien's game venue was recently replaced for it giving concerts where competitors tickle their wrist obstacle. course some snowboard athletes the prospector of around here wins it is not a nightmare but it dream come true and here their dream becomes reality as these they're always going to hold their tricks on the edge of your shorts more three hundred sixty five days a year. i. however

for in a man such as a jeep competition a relatively small amount of snow is required as snowboarders gain speed on a slope and like an old skateboarding influenced boards jump and slide over different barriers and before uncomplicated tricks. the beauty of a bad start but if sam malamud almost every amateur dreams of becoming a pro him the prize of snowboarding equipment for the whole year is up for grabs here and after that cheer if a snowboarder is good enough he will sign a professional contract their own the hundred amateur boarders gathered to battle for that top prize and showed off their best breathtaking and jaw dropping tricks on the rail chain breast the judges. that i didn't expect to win but i'm happy i did hopefully during this year i'll produce my best and sign a pro contract is hard earned money and snowboarding in this country but if you perform on a solid level you can get a contract elsewhere that there are still only

a few professional still borders in russia but such events could perhaps help inspire youngsters to turn a hobby into a living. i. am sending back up of our team. and that's always what this bill is and i'll be back with a round up in just under two hours well until then i. magine assets that the damn phone watches show every single moment. and waiting for you to stumble. i saw a man with a video camera so i moved over and he phoned me. you know we realized they were following everyone from early in the morning.

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